[Stoves] Question on Choice of Designs and Available Resources for a Small Outdoor Stove

[Niels Corfield]

Kevin,

Thanks, answers in body below.

All the best,
Niels

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Kevin Chisholm wrote:
> Dear Niels
>
> There are many stoves and many cooking circumstances. The more specific you 
> are with your request, the more likely the List can contribute points 
> relevant to your situation.
>
> Is electric power available at the site?
>   
No
> What kind of fuel is available?
>   
cut wood (elder, others), some scrap timber
> What kind of cooking is required? (Griddle, pot, oven, etc)
>   
Pot
> What heat output is required for the cooking and the heating application?
>   
I guess compatible with a cooking pot, heating water and food (stews etc)
> Where is the general area of use? (Tropics, temperate region, freezing 
> region, etc.
>   
Mild temperate, UK, very sheltered North of England location
> How much can the end user afford to pay for the stove (stoves)?
>   
Little as possible, found materials, natural materials if poss.
if not basic standard materials: sheet steel OK, don't have a supplier 
though.
> What local materials are available?
>   
Usual Western urban trappings I guess.
> What local crafts or skills are available?
>   
Metal working tools on-site. But I would like to do everything with the 
group without power and with the basic tools if poss. Though I 
understand metal working hand tools maybe necessary.
> How many such stoves so you need?
>   
Just one off's to demonstrate the technology, though will hopefully 
generate enough interest to do some skill share workshops and people can 
make their own, possibly on-site.
> Answers, or insights, into these general questions would be a big help 
> toward getting "suggestion effort" into a higher zone of helpfulness..
>
>   
> Best wishes,
>
> Kevin
>   

Thanks for this.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Niels Corfield" <mudguard at gmail.com>
> To: <stoves at listserv.repp.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 1:06 PM
> Subject: [Stoves] Question on Choice of Designs and Available Resources for 
> a Small Outdoor Stove
>
>
>   
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Have some quick questions regarding stoves and design options for cooking.
>> Further to this would like to get some tips and a design if possible.
>>
>> The stove(s) will be in use in a semi-outdoor situation and we would
>> like to be able to cook efficiently and to provide an efficient
>> alternative to an open fire for heating purposes.
>> I can see that we might want to use more than one device for the
>> different applications.
>>
>> I have seen the vid for the VITA stove, this looks like the kind of
>> device suitable and also I am interested in experimenting with pocket
>> rocket type devices.
>> Are there available resources or designs for suitable devices?
>> I have the excellent booklet on space heating but it would be nice to
>> some projects/step-by-step designs for a device or two. Perhaps giving
>> options for the use of natural materials.
>>
>> Hope this isn't too vague.
>>
>> All the best,
>> Niels Corfield
>>
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>>
>> Groups I Contribute to:
>> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/polyculturepeople/
>> http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/leeds_permaculture_network/?yguid=243022692
>> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/scythe
>>
>> Swillington Permaculture Forest Garden Project -Aerial Image (Now Quite 
>> Old):
>> http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=LS26+8QA&ie=UTF8&z=19&ll=53.760874,-1.428051&spn=0.000943,0.00339&t=k&om=1
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